Charles

5. A Very Light Spot

Want to erase your home town and everyone you know? You're going to need a very special device to do it.

This morning, I turned on an IPR and blasted a good amount of frequency to a particular spot just outside the prison walls, an area where nobody usually goes, just trees and overgrown grass. It's impossible to detect since I made sure the prison's security was a bit 'low-tech' for the time being. Wouldn't have gotten away with it if I wasn't the one incharge. I feel so naughty. Anyway, this was extremely important, because I've been monitoring this particular spot for ten years according to the diary. I couldn't wait any longer, so I had to induce the frequency on the spot so it would explode. Well, I'm hoping it's not a big explosion, I wouldn't want the entire island to evaporate off the map.

I made my way close to the strange occurrence. As I arrived, about ten meters away, I saw what my IPR did. There was a strange spherical object in mid-air just about two meters above the ground with light flashes came from it. It was quite the show. What could this be? I read about something called Black Holes a few months ago. Oh dear. Perhaps it's an explosion. If this really is an explosion ready to burst, then I made the biggest mistake of my life and was definitely in the wrong spot. The flashes of light became more frequent and I could hear electric sparks coming from the sphere. Immediately I took cover behind a nearby tree with a thick trunk. It's no use running away now, I've probably got about one minute before the entire Aluben region and all its people, inmates and all, are history.

Can I stop this? I can't think of a way to do so. Is this it? I've come to this new timeline only to spend two short years, and then I blow up my home island? What if this destroys the entire planet!? What's wrong with me and trying out new things? I'm the greatest idiot of all timelines!

Just then, a strong light came from the suspended sphere. Everything I could see became enveloped in the blinding light. I kept my eyes shut and breathed my last few breaths. Every split second that passed, I thought, "I could have just died on my bed and never came here in the first place!" It was much better in 2145, even with the backaches and wobbly knees. At least I would die in a warm soft bed. It's a much more comfortable death than here. I don't know what will happen to me, I'm so scared right now. What if the reason...

What? I opened my eyes. The light was missing. Where did it go? All that light and it's all gone? I took more steady breathes and then took a chance, I peered around the trunk to see what had happened. The coast was clear. The sphere of light was missing too. How? I returned back in my position behind the trunk and thought for a moment. What is this? Light just disappearing and gone again as if it's done it's job and carried on to scare some other living being somewhere in the universe? The energy must have came from somewhere and not from the IPR. This spot was detected ten years ago. I have to find out how it came here in the first place. But first, I need a cup of tea, this event was hectic. After my nerves are cooled down, I'll definitely figure it out. I'm not a TCA winner for nothing!

Charles took a stroll back towards the entrance side of the prison. "My word, I thought the planet was going to blow.", He thought to himself. "I'd better think matters through next time."

"*"

Charles stopped dead in his tracks and turned towards where the sphere of light was. He heard some kind of sound in the grass.

"Hello?", Charles asked.

"***"

Something was definitely there. What could it be? Was this from the light sphere? Charles wished the grass wasn't so overgrown so what ever was there wouldn't be hidden from sight. He stepped a bit closer with caution. Slowly and slowly he began to see clothing of some sorts. Yes, it was sneakers, black pants and a nice looking slim track jacket, clothing fashion styles that Charles had seen in images that were from decades ago, and a boy wearing them!

His clothes looked like he was in a rough fight. The boy was just lying lifelessly in the grass. Charles noticed that his body was in a bit of a shiver. A thought of a similar incident came to Charles's mind. He remembered how he found Jax lying in an alleyway. But this boy needed help. Charles Immediately picked him up. He was actually quite light and skinny. Charles noticed the boy's face, he looked around twelve years old. What was a kid doing in a place like this? Did my security do this to him?

Charles ordered a private ride home with this mysterious boy. Once arrived, Charles put the boy in a warm bed, hoping that soon he would awake and hopefully give some answers. Unlike Jax, who just stared into the nothingness.

-to be continued...